Another one for the Ladies

[taff]

I came across an interesting fly pattern whilst fishing the Irfon for Grayling on the weekend, I thought I might share it with you folks.

My fishing buddy had fished a week in Montana back in the Summer and brought back the usual collection of Western US patterns, one of which he was raving about. Its called the Purple Haze.

Anyway, the Irfon on the weekend wasn't giving up its grayling that easily and apart from the odd morning fish on bugs, we were having a tough one.

Lunchtime saw a decent hatch of olives and the fish started to rise and feed heavily. We tried all the usual suspects with constant refusals.

Enter the Purple Haze! You guessed it, worked like a charm!

Hook- 12 dry fly
Tail- thick and robustly tied pale deer hair
Body- deep purple dubbing
Wing Post- white calf
Hackle- parachute grizzle and dark brown

I've tied some "lighter weight" versions for this weekend.

There is the Snipe and Purple of course and I've read somewhere of purple Klinkhamers for Grayling but I'd be interested to know if anyone else has had success with this colour for Grayling?

Cheers

Paul

[john_mac]

any chance of a piccy mate?

I can't say i've actually ever tried purple for grayling, but apparently pink is a killer so I can see purple working.

[paramedicpete]

Originally Posted by john_mac

any chance of a piccy mate?

I can't say i've actually ever tried purple for grayling, but apparently pink is a killer so I can see purple working.

Here you go.

http://www.bigyflyco.com/items/dry-f...aze-detail.htm


Pete

[taff]

This is more like the ones we have

http://busterwantstofish.com/?p=1603

Cheers

Paul

[john_mac]

I shall have to give that a chuck, once i master the art of parachute hackling...